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You have to like the way kids think. They might be ridiculous one minute and geniuses the next. And sometimes they have an interesting way of categorizing things.

Overheard of the Week

On the Blue line Tuesday afternoon around 4:00 p.m.:

A young boy about five years old sees an Amtrak train passing by near King Street.

Boy turns to his father: “Can we ride on a train?”
Father: “Sure, we’ll do that one day.”
Boy: “We could go someplace cool like Las Vegas. Or Roanoke!”

After the jump, very fancy bars, museums, and weirdness at the Lincoln Memorial.

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When first looking at the place, I expected there to be a valet service for all the Rolls Royces

Four 20-something women sitting at a table outside of the Tune Inn:

First Woman: “Should we stay here for another drink?”
Second Woman: “Eww, no. There are too many poor people here.”

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As is the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the National Pinball Museum…

In front of the National Geographic building on 17th Street:

20-something tourist #1: “Is the National Geographic Museum part of the Smithsonian?”
20-something tourist #2: “I’m not sure. It has National in it so it must be.”

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Too easy

Several police are practicing traffic direction at an intersection on Capitol Hill:

A female cop is talking with her male supervisor: “I just gotta work on my blows. I was gonna do it with my lips…”

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May I be the first to say: so go home

In the Galley Place-Chinatown Station:

Father at bottom of escalator, to son at top of escalator: “You really need to stay with me. It’s a baaaad city.”

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No dummy, it’s for the town in Nebraska!

Today near the Lincoln Memorial:

A 30-something tourist wife to her husband: “So, they built this huge monument for just ONE person?”

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Point made.

On the Green Line near the Archives-Navy Memorial Station:

A group of four Southern tourists with deep drawls are talking.

Tourist 1: “You don’t have the sense the good Lord gave an animal cracker.”
Tourist 2: “Wait… I don’t get it.”

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Maybe the FDA should investigate neon

Thursday afternoon at New Hampshire and 24th, near some George Washington University buildings:

Two college-age guys, both wearing grey blazers and too tight jeans. One has a neon t-shirt and the other has a different neon baseball cap.

First guy: “Kinda like when you’re so into doing something that you forget whoever the hell you are. Ya know?”
Second: “Yeah!”

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Sí.

El Centro DF rooftop bar, Friday night:

Late 30s guy, kinda drunk, to bartender: “You guys serve sushi downstairs, right?”

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Trust is a good way to start a marriage

Friday about 5:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial:

An attractive, late-20s blonde couple is having engagement pictures taken at the Lincoln Memorial and disagreeing about what’s on the photographer’s shot list.

Bride-to-be, while striking a pose: “We don’t need a picture of just me. What are you going to do with a picture of me by myself? …Uh, nevermind!”

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And finally, an Overheard in D.C. Choose Your Own Adventure. Which would you pick!?

8 pm on a weekday outside the Hamilton at 14th and F:

Two very preppy drunk men in their late 20s/early 30s are talking:

“Alright dude, where are we going: McFadden’s or Camelot?”